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Tetrapterys discolor

Botanic Family

Malpighiaceae

Author

(G. Meyer) de Candolle

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amazonas
• Pará
• Roraima - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Disturbed areas
• riversides
• seasonally inundated areas
• forests
• cloud forest
• woodland

Flowering Times

• Jul-Sep (Nicaragua)

Fruiting Times

• Jan-Feb (Nicaragua)

Twining glabrous liana, tree or shrub with lenticellate branches. Mostly glabrous leaves to 130mm x 50mm. Terminal & axillary 4-flowered panicles or umbels to 250mm long with bractlets. 12.5mm wide canary yellow flowers with sepals 4mm long, petals 5mm long, claw 2mm long. Silky samaras to 30mm long with nut 5mm long & wings 18mm x 10mm.

Further References

• Mobot
• Neotrop
• FB
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOPE